A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12, 1998
Farm-City Banquet Provides People Sense Of Community
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and commercial and other organi
zational exhibitions.
The floor was filled with white
round tables and chairs to scat ban
quet participants. The wall behind
the main stage and podium was
decorated with quilts, and the rest
of the walls were lined with exhi
bits booths.
At one end of the large hall
stood a 20-foot tall, decorated
Christmas tree. In the lobby area,
there were also various displays
and a number of Christmas trees,
and a hat and coat check area with
donations to be used to start a new
4-H camping program in memory
of Theresa Lopinto.
Other donations were being
accepted to help victims of Hurri
cane Mitch.
Opposite the stage were three
long buffet tables.
With all that in one large hall,
there was still at least 10 feet of
aisle between tables and displays.
The Lebanon Farm-City Prog
ram, a program conducted through
the Lebanon Area Chamber of
Commerce headed by Stephan
Vegoe, has changed over the years,
with some variety in the amount of
actual open house activity at
farms.
This year, during October, there
were three farms opened up to
tours, though this was just a men
tion during the banquet.
Kenneth Wincbark, former
county livestock agent for Penn
State Extension, who has been
Jeff Werner, co-chairman of the Lebanon Farm-City Ban
quet, presents a century business award to David Harpel,
representing Harpers Inc., a Lebanon family owned busi
ness that reached the century mark this year.
involved in helping children with
problems find self-confidence,
direction, fulfillment and a sense
of love through religion and self
help, provided the invocation.
Toward the end of the banquet
meal, the Lebanon High School
Chamber Singers, in their long
school colored gowns entertained
from a four-tiered riser adjacent to
the main stage. Unamplifled, they
sang a mix of holiday and classic
songs with piano accompianment
The Lebanon Farm-City Prog
ram indudes a poster contest for
youth, and this year’s winner was
9-ycar-old Schane Clark, son of
Gail Clark of Annville. Schane
said it was the second time he won
a poster contest; the fust time he
wear a contest was when he was
4-ycars-old and entered and won a
local framing-store competition.
Dennis Grumbine of Myer
stown, director of the Pennsylvani
a Farm Show Complex, repre
sented the Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Agriculture, and explained
that state Secretary of Agriculture
Samuel Hayes Jr. would have
enjoyed being present, but was
instead in Mexico on a goodwill
mission to help with the grand
opening of the nation’s largest
livestock show.
He explained that Secretary
Hayes would also be inviting a
contingent from Mexico to attend
the state Farm Show, to be held
Jan. 9-14 at the Complex in
Harrisburg.
A traditional part of the Lcba-
1998 Lebanon Farm-City exchange participants are, from the left, Bruce BoKz and
Andy Mick, Dawn Richard and Karen Molt.
non Farm-City Program is the pre
sentation of a century farm award
and a century business award.
(Lebanon County actually has
two century farm award winners
this year, although the first one
was uncharacteristically presented
during the county Extension annu
al meeting in November.)
Grumbine presented the award
to Frank Reist, who accepted on
behalf of bis family.
The Peist family farm began in
1851 with 41 acres and a herd of
purebred Holstein-Friesan dairy
cattle. The farm has continuously
maintained Holstein dairy catde on
the farm ever since, and the
acreage has grown to 300.
Up until 1939, the farm bottled
and sold milk.
Frank Reist represents the
seventh generation to farm that
land. He recognized his family,
wife Cindy and daughter Michelle;
his mother Eunice Reist; older
brother Carl and his wife Linda;
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brother Donald, who works with
him at the Harm full time, and
Donald’s wife Cathy; and brother
Gary and his wife Valerie.
Grumbine told the group that the
farm started under the Femsler
name and in 1938 Frank Femsler
became a master farmer.
Farm-City Banquet Committee
co-chairs, Carol Howard and Jeff
Werner (who also is the county
Farm Bureau president), presented
the century business award.
The recipient of that award was
Harpel’s Inc., currendy celebrat
ing its 100th anniversary as a fami
ly owned concern.
It began as a photography busi
ness with Luther Harpel, whose
many and early photographs have
served as rich historic documents
for the community. Many are in
possession by the county historic
association.
His son Donald continued the
business, and then passed it on to
his son David, whose son Rick
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Harpcl now serves as president of
the operation.
Over the years it became an
office and photography supply
store, and while photography work
dropped off during interim genera
tions, the current generation has
successfully restarted that aspect
with Rick and his wife Maty Lee
opening up a studie and doing
event photography, as well as
framing and photo processing.
Furthermore it also has a franch
ise copy center, called Copies
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David Harpel accepted the
award «nd thanked the community
for its patronage over the years,
allowing the family business to
serve them, and for continuing to
do so.
He also recognized his wife
Anne and his aunt Lucille, daught
er of Luther.
Henry Homan mentioned that as
a youth in the community, he even
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